Yesterday - Birthday musings

Yesterday was my birthday, and so thanks to all who came and attempted to surprise me at Kais'n Stubn (if that's how you spell it). Next time you need to park around the corner! But it was great to hang out with friends and eat schnitzel and drink beer that actually tasted good.

Have a brand new coffee grinding machine thing sitting on the bench in the kitchen. I guess I can now make coffee better at home. I am wondering how much it will actually affect my going-out-for-coffee drinking habit - probably not a lot.

25 years old, and things seem to be going OK for me, thanks to God. I am probably around a third of my life completed, so God willing, and going on the averages, I have around 50 years or so left. I aim to make them count for the gospel of Jesus.

In other news, Went surfing yesterday, should have been writing talks, but I couldn't resist the opportunity to get in the water. It was pouring down rain too, kind of felt like there was more water above me, then underneath me. Went again today, it was OK. Time to get some work done now though.

Better make the most of today, it only comes round once every four years.

I like your old stuff better than your new stuff

Well, sort of anyway.

February always brings about the new routines for the year. So the last couple of weeks have been about preparing for the new groups I am in and getting them off the ground.
I tend to work better when I am in a new routine too, and I actually like the new stuff that lies ahead - looking forward to it.

For this year I will be working at CSR Edmonds on Mondays, and Tuesday morning, and working for St. Faith's the rest of the time, with Saturday as my day off. I tend to think that will work better than the routine from last year. The ISCF group at Manly High will now be on Tuesday luch times to help work around it. So, by next week, it is all up and running again, scripture, iscf, all the youth groups. It's going to be busy, but productive.

In other news, I had a great time at Bible Study last night, we spent some time looking at Luke 18, and we actually learnt stuff, by discussing our thoughts on the passage together. It was encouraging.

coffee this morning

Had a nice coffee this morning, well two actually. Had one at home, plunger, then went out and met my sis for a coffee at Cafe 5. It was nice to see my new niece again Danni, Katie, my other niece wasn't there which was a shame.

That's a photo of Danni, she is doing fine, apparently, or so Emma says! They don't do very much when they are that little, but I guess when you are three weeks old, just holding your head up is an achievement.

Kidsplus this afternoon, looking forward to meeting the kids again, and hanging out with the leaders, they're all a great bunch again this year, with plenty of enthusiasm to go round. Enthusiasm is contagious, like the flu, except in a good way, so this year should be a fun year.

What is 17 divided by 40?

Almost half is what it is.

17 weeks now (time to give Cathy some flowers)!

Time does go fast, we are approaching half way in the pregnancy and things are still pretty smooth. Cathy is feeling the baby move around these days, she says it is like a tingling feeling. Now, I don't particularly wish that I could go through pregnancy myself, but that part of it would be pretty special.

We have been getting a few offers of free baby stuff lately, which has been really great, and will definitely come in helpful. Thanks to the people out there who are able and willing to help us out. But still keep praying for us, that's most important.

Babies can be very pre-occupying though, so we will do our best to focus our attention outwards as well as inwards, but it may be hard, especially when July comes around, so please bear with us - but also remind us that the world is much bigger than us!

Free Songs x 5

Hot day today, summer rain, summer sun, I just hope it cools down enough to let me sleep tonight.

Nice to have an afternoon off though, time to do some reading, listen to music, play some guitar. Just bought Jack Johnson's new album today, sounds pretty good. But I am reminded again that I still like his first album most of all. Got it at Leading Edge- $25, Kmart didn't have it, but then again, they always tend to be three weeks behind everywhere else.

Also, I noticed an ad around the place that said you can get a free 5 song sampler from Brushfire records, but I am having trouble downloading it.

Here is the link

http://www.brushfirerecords.com.au/register.php

Let me know if you can download it, maybe I am doing something wrong.

Listening to the new album makes me want to go for a surf. I think I might, at least I can cool off some.